The strange attraction we can't overcome to our own negative states is born out of our resistance to them, because this resistance -- i.e., of not wanting to feel the way we do -- is the same as giving our attention to the painful feeling we profess not to want!...

When we realize that the world around us is powerless to grant our wish for a sense of real permanency, our attention naturally turns toward that uncharted country within us where, as our eyes accustom themselves to the light therein, we catch a glimpse of our Eternal Home.

Classroom Talk: 6/21/2003

Topic: Realize the Unseen Relationship Between Meditation and Self-Realization (Classroom Talk 5/1/24)

Topic: The Karma-Free Path to Being Perfectly Complete (4/21/21 Classroom Talk)

As long as even the smallest unexpected change in this topsy-turvy world of ours can grab and fix our attention onto something that leaves us feeling stressed and negative about it, we are a prisoner of this world... and play an unconscious role in its continuing conflict.

Topic: Awaken the Timeless Individual that Lives Within You (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 5/13/26)

Topic: Use Any Troubling Moment to Realize the Truth that Sets You Free (Classroom Talk 2/8/23)

Topic: What to do when your whole world turns upside down (classroom talk 1/12/22

Looking for the meaning of any experience by taking thought about it is like focusing your attention on the single thread of a magnificent tapestry and hoping to understand the story it tells by analyzing that one thread. The story is so much bigger than that and... so is your true Self.

"Failure" is never to be feared; we must never bow before what seems to lay us low. Better our attention should be turned to our false ideas about the nature of "success" -- and to see there, beneath its gilded veil, the face of the cruel master whose slave we have agreed to become.